Duckduckgo Statistics and User Count (2023)

DuckDuckGo is an Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs. With our roots as the search engine that doesn’t track you, we’ve expanded what we do to protect you no matter where the Internet takes you. (Source)

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Duckduckgo Statistics

Here are a few of the most interesting Duckduckgo statistics and facts I was able to dig up including user counts. As always, be sure to check back in the future as I will be updating this post as new and updated stats become available.

Duckduckgo User Count

How many people use DuckDuckGo?

4.7 million daily users

Last updated 4/7/14

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Additional Duckduckgo Statistics

Number to times DuckDuckGo’s browsers and/or browser extensions were downloaded in 2019:

20 million times

Last updated 3/6/20

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Duckduckgo share of the US search market:

1%

Last updated 4/15/19

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Duckduckgo share of the US desktop search market:

0.5%

Last updated 4/25/19

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Duckduckgo share of the US mobile search market:

2.3%

Last updated 1/19/21

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Average number of DuckDuckGo searches per year:

6 billion searches

Last updated 1/3/18

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Total number of DuckDuckGo searches all time:

100 billion searches

Last updated 1/13/22

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Average number of daily DuckDuckGo searches:

90 million searches

Last updated January 2021

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Number of DuckduckGo searches in 2013:

over 1 billion

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Number of DuckduckGo searches in 2015:

over 3 billion

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Number of DuckduckGo searches in 2018:

9 billion

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Percentage of DuckduckGo users that are from the US:

50%

Last updated 12/20/17

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Percentage of DuckduckGo users that are from the Europe:

45%

Last updated 12/20/17

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Percentage of DuckduckGo users that are from the Asia:

5%

Last updated 12/20/17

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Number of DuckDuckGo employees:

28 employees

Last updated 6/19/15

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Day with highest number of DuckDuckGo queries:

1/11/21 (102 million queries)

Last updated 1/19/21

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